"Alive": Hope Amidst Despair

Alive, with Ethan Hawke, is the true story of a Uruguayan rugby team, whose plane crashes in the Andes mountains in 1972. The film portrays the struggle ...

Do You Want Heaven Now?

Author and professor Lewis Smedes used to ask his students if they wanted to go to heaven when they died. Everyone would raise a hand. Then he'd ask, ...

Ronald Reagan's Vulnerability

On November 5, 1994, Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, wrote a letter to his fellow citizens from his home near Santa Barbara. ...

Man Prays at Wailing Wall

A journalist assigned to the Jerusalem bureau takes an apartment overlooking the Wailing Wall. Every day when she looks out, she sees an old Jewish man ...

Murderer Carla Faye Tucker Confesses Christ

Carla Faye Tucker in 1983 helped to kill two people with a pickaxe, and she was so animalistic in her behavior that she laughed while she did it. She ...

Soldier Hears and Later Finds God

Roy Edgemon writes in The Ways of God:

While in Okinawa, Japan, I would end each radio ministry broadcast with an invitation to call in questions and requests. ...

"Signs": No Coincidences

Signs is the story of the Hess family in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, who wake up one morning to find a 500-foot crop circle in the middle of their cornfield. ...

Hope After Disaster on Everest

English explorer George Mallory dreamed of conquering Mount Everest. He organized an expedition, but it failed. A second attempt also failed. A third ...

Trusting God When Miracles Don't Come

In Holding On to Hope, Nancy Guthrie writes:

We had Hope for 199 days. We loved her. We enjoyed her richly and shared her with everyone we could. We held ...

Inevitable Disappointments of This Life

Our paradigm of what a Christian life is supposed to be hugely affects whether we become bitter or not. So many of the people I work with are dealing ...